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{{As of|2014}}, there are over thirty [[college]]s and [[University|universities]] in [[New Jersey]] in the [[United States]] that are listed under the [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education]]. Of these, the state eleven public and sixteen private colleges and universities, several accredited theological and rabbinical schools, as well as four for-profit proprietary institutions. These institutions include five [[Research university|research universities]].
The following is a '''list of [[college]]s and [[University|universities]]''' in the [[U.S. state]] of [[New Jersey]].

{{As of|2014}} New Jersey has eleven public and sixteen private colleges and universities, six accredited theological and rabbinical schools, as well as four for-profit proprietary institutions.


New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two [[Colonial Colleges|colleges in the colonial period]]. [[Princeton University]], chartered in 1746 as the ''College of New Jersey'', and [[Rutgers University|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey]], chartered on 10 November 1766 as ''Queen's College'', were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.<ref name="StoeckelColonialColleges">Stoeckel, Althea. [http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ConspectusH&CISOPTR=345&REC=1 "Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution"], ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56.</ref><ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/227/1613.html Chapter XXIII. Education. § 13. Colonial Colleges] in ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature''. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921; online edition, 2000).</ref><ref name="McCormickRutgers">McCormick, Richard P., ''Rutgers: A Bicentennial History'' (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966).</ref>{{rp|passim.}} In the 1860s, these two colleges competed to become the state's [[land grant university|land grant college]] under the terms of the [[Morrill Act of 1862]] which provided land and funding to expand development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education at one school in each state. Rutgers received the designation in 1864 began to expand instruction in these areas and taking on a hybrid private-public role that paved the way for its transformation into a [[state university]] in 1945. Today, Rutgers is a large [[Public university|public]] [[research university]] serving over 65,000 students. Princeton remained a private college and developed into a research university that is one of the nation's eight prestigious [[Ivy League]] schools.
New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two [[Colonial Colleges|colleges in the colonial period]]. [[Princeton University]], chartered in 1746 as the ''College of New Jersey'', and [[Rutgers University|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey]], chartered on 10 November 1766 as ''Queen's College'', were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.<ref name="StoeckelColonialColleges">Stoeckel, Althea. [http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ConspectusH&CISOPTR=345&REC=1 "Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution"], ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56.</ref><ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/227/1613.html Chapter XXIII. Education. § 13. Colonial Colleges] in ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature''. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921; online edition, 2000).</ref><ref name="McCormickRutgers">McCormick, Richard P., ''Rutgers: A Bicentennial History'' (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966).</ref>{{rp|passim.}} In the 1860s, these two colleges competed to become the state's [[land grant university|land grant college]] under the terms of the [[Morrill Act of 1862]] which provided land and funding to expand development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education at one school in each state. Rutgers received the designation in 1864 began to expand instruction in these areas and taking on a hybrid private-public role that paved the way for its transformation into a [[state university]] in 1945. Today, Rutgers is a large [[Public university|public]] [[research university]] serving over 65,000 students. Princeton remained a private college and developed into a research university that is one of the nation's eight prestigious [[Ivy League]] schools.

Revision as of 15:26, 8 April 2014

Old Queens, the oldest building at Rutgers University
Mead Hall at Drew University
Cleveland Tower at Princeton University

As of 2014, there are over thirty colleges and universities in New Jersey in the United States that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Of these, the state eleven public and sixteen private colleges and universities, several accredited theological and rabbinical schools, as well as four for-profit proprietary institutions. These institutions include five research universities.

New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on 10 November 1766 as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.[1][2][3]: passim.  In the 1860s, these two colleges competed to become the state's land grant college under the terms of the Morrill Act of 1862 which provided land and funding to expand development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education at one school in each state. Rutgers received the designation in 1864 began to expand instruction in these areas and taking on a hybrid private-public role that paved the way for its transformation into a state university in 1945. Today, Rutgers is a large public research university serving over 65,000 students. Princeton remained a private college and developed into a research university that is one of the nation's eight prestigious Ivy League schools.

Colleges and universities

Active not-for-profit public and private institutions

School Location Founded Control[4] Type[4] Enrollment Accreditation
Assumption College for Sisters Mendham 1953 Private Associates 40[5] MSA, NJCHE
Bloomfield College Bloomfield 1868 Private Baccalaureate 2,156[6] -
Caldwell College Caldwell 1939 Private Master's 2,284[7] -
Centenary College Hackettstown 1867 Private Master's 2,939[8] -
College of Saint Elizabeth Morris Township 1899 Private Master's 2,044 -
Drew University Madison 1867 Private Baccalaureate 2,369 -
Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison/Florham Park, Teaneck/Hackensack 1942 Private Master's 12,000+ -
Felician College Lodi/Rutherford 1942 Private Master's 2,040 -
Georgian Court University Lakewood 1908 Private Master's 1,772 -
Kean University Union, Hillside 1855 Public Master's 16,000+ -
Monmouth University West Long Branch 1933 Private Master's 6,494 -
Montclair State University Montclair 1908 Public Master's 18,498 -
New Jersey City University Jersey City 1929 Public Master's 8,550 -
New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark 1881 Public Research university 10,130 MSA
Pillar College[a] Zarephath, Newark 1908 Private Special focus institution 241[9] -
Princeton University Princeton 1746 Private Research university 8,010 -
Ramapo College of New Jersey Mahwah 1969 Public Master's 6,008 -
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Galloway 1969 Public Master's 8,111 -
Rider University Lawrenceville 1865 Private Master's 5,790 -
Rowan University Glassboro, Camden 1923 Public Master's 11,501 MSA
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey[b] New Brunswick and Piscataway, Camden, Newark 1766 Public Research university 65,000 MSA
Saint Peter's University Jersey City 1881 Private Master's 2,987 -
Seton Hall University South Orange 1856 Private Research university 9.745 -
Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken 1870 Private Research university 5,260 -
The College of New Jersey Ewing 1855 Public Master's 6.964 -
Thomas Edison State College Trenton 1972 Public Master's 20,877 -
William Paterson University Wayne 1855 Public Master's 11,423 -

Active for-profit proprietary institutions

School Location Founded Control[4] Type[4] Enrollment Accreditation
Berkeley College Newark, Paramus, Woodland Park, Woodbridge - Proprietary
(for-profit)		 Special Focus Institution 3,709[11] -
DeVry University North Brunswick 1931 Proprietary
(for-profit)		 Baccalaureate
Associate's		 90,000[c] -
Jersey College Teterboro, Ewing - Proprietary
(for-profit)		 - - -
Strayer University Cherry Hill 1892 Proprietary
(for-profit)		 Master's 54,325[d] -

Theological seminaries and rabbinical schools

Theological seminaries and rabbinical schools in New Jersey
School Location Founded Affiliation Accreditation Notes
Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood 1943 Haredi Orthodox Judaism AARTS, NJCHE -
Drew Theological School Madison 1867 United Methodist Church ATS, MSA
  • Founded as Methodist seminary, expanded into Drew University when liberal arts education added in 1928.
    • New Brunswick Theological Seminary New Brunswick 1784 Reformed Church in America ATS, MSA
  • Oldest seminary in the United States, founded as Dutch Reformed seminary in New York City, moved to New Brunswick in 1810, run jointly and shared facilities with Queen's College, later Rutgers College, until 1856.
    • Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton 1812 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ATS, MSA
  • Second-oldest seminary in the United States, second largest theological library collection in the world, behind only the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City
    • Rabbinical College of America Morristown 1973 Jewish (Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic) -
  • Rabbinical college, also offers orthodox day school for boys and girls and summer programs
    • Talmudical Academy of Central New Jersey Adelphia (Howell) 1972 Orthodox Jewish -
  • Includes an orthodox yeshiva high school and rabbinical college
    • Key
    Abbreviation Accrediting agency
    AARTS Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools
    ATS Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada
    MSA Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
    NJCHE New Jersey Commission on Higher Education

    County community colleges

    Sussex County's freeholders purchased Don Bosco College, a Roman Catholic seminary, for its community college campus in 1989.
    Main article: List of New Jersey County Colleges

    New Jersey has a system of 19 public community colleges at the county level statewide. This reflects the fact that each college serves one of New Jersey's 21 counties, except for Atlantic Cape Community College and Raritan Valley Community College, each of which serves two counties. In 1989, the New Jersey Council of County Colleges was created to promote the advancement of the state's county community colleges. In 2003, governor James McGreevey created the New Jersey Community Colleges Compact, through Executive Order No. 81, as a statewide partnership to enable cooperation between the colleges and various state departments. The county colleges of New Jersey represent 56% of all undergraduate students in the state and offer studies in associate's degree and certificate programs. Reflecting long-term trends nationwide, the male-to-female ratio of students in the system is 41% male to 59% female, and 48% of students are over the age of 24. Overall, the system enrolls more than 350,000 students each year on campuses that range in size from 1,300 students at Salem Community College to over 15,000 students at Bergen Community College.

    Not all of the county colleges were founded by the State of New Jersey; the oldest county college in New Jersey, Union County College, was founded in 1933 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration as Union County Junior College; it operated as a private college from 1936 to 1982, and merged with the publicly operated Union County Technical Institute in 1982 to become the current public institution.[13]

    Defunct institutions

    List of defunct institutions in New Jersey
    School Location Control Founded Closed Notes
    Evelyn College for Women Princeton - - - -
    Gibbs College Livingston - - - -
    Touro University College of Medicine Hackensack - - - -
    Upsala College East Orange, Wantage Private, Lutheran-affiliated 1893 1995 Financial issues
    University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, Stratford Public - 2013 Merged with Rutgers University in 2012–13

    See also

    References

    Notes

    1. ^ formerly Somerset Christian College
    2. ^ Rutgers includes four campuses: the three traditional campuses of Rutgers–New Brunswick, Rutgers–Camden, and Rutgers–Newark; and a fourth "campus", Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, a division oversees medical and health education at several locations statewide subsequent to the 2012–2013 merger between Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).[10]
    3. ^ as a for-profit institution without a traditional academic residency or campus, DeVry offers courses nationwide through online instruction and distance learning. This number does not reflect students in residence on a campus or enrolled for classes in New Jersey.
    4. ^ as a for-profit institution without a traditional academic residency or campus, Strayer, based in Washington DC, offers courses nationwide through online instruction and distance learning. This number does not reflect students in residence on a campus or enrolled for classes in New Jersey.[12]

    Citations

    1. ^ Stoeckel, Althea. "Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", Conspectus of History (1976) 1(3):45–56.
    2. ^ Chapter XXIII. Education. § 13. Colonial Colleges in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921; online edition, 2000).
    3. ^ McCormick, Richard P., Rutgers: A Bicentennial History (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966).
    4. ^ a b c d Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: Institution Lookup. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
    5. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Assumption College for Sisters, Mendham, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    6. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    7. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    8. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Centenary College, Hackettstown, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    9. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Pillar College (Somerset Christian College, Zarephath, New Jersey), Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    10. ^ Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, "Our Campuses". Retrieved 6 April 2014.
    11. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Berkeley College, West Paterson, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    12. ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Strayer University, Washington, DC, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
    13. ^ Union County College, "About UCC - History". Retrieved 5 March 2014.
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